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Thursday, May 20, 2010

A little ahead of myself

I have been hurrying to finish a small quilt that I thought was due on June 1. Turns out it isn't due until July !! Nice feeling to be that far ahead of schedule. This is the piece I just finished for the SAQA auction.

I took this picture last Spring when our STASH group went to the beach and based my design on it.

Interestingly, several weeks ago I was reading blogs and came to fellow 12 Diane Perin Hock's photo of the black and white rooster she had just finished. I was so surprised to see it because I had the plan in my mind for my own black and white rooster, using black and white print fabrics. I think I have mentioned before that Diane and I seem to often be working on a similar wavelength! I quickly closed her blog and vowed not to look at her piece again until after I finished my own rooster. I didn't want to be influenced by choices she had made for her rooster. Now that I go back to see hers I don't think they are that similar, but I love hers! Just goes to show that there are only so many ideas in the universe, but two people can interpret the idea in two different ways.

What a wonderful rooster! And it's very funny that we both had the impulse to interpret that sort of creature in fabric! We are both drawn to graphic images, so I guess it's no surprise that this wonderful black and white and red creature would get us both going! I love your background, too!